sandy's bands where still whipping up. we've had very strong gusts anywhere between 60 and 70 miles an hour. at newark it was clocked at about 70 miles an hour so i would certainly say in this area, we're seeing that. we're also seeing just the sky light up across the way over to jersey city. you know, their power and transformers are stationed are impacted by the storm and we've seen that time and time again and we're feeling one of these gusts right now. pretty powerful yet. lower manhattan flooding in some areas and we've had reports of flooding and the brooklyn battery tunnel that some water has gushed into that area as well. so it is a certainly, not over yet. tonight we're hoping that the mayor is correct and that the worst is behind us. but also, some of the damage that's already been done and it could take some time to get lower manhattan, as well as the transit system and all that back up and running. >> michelle, we were showing a picture of flooding at the construction site at ground zero down there in lower man